Is it sad that war, poverty and pestilence now blight Afghanistan?”
Photo: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01520/Afghanistan-flu_1520775c.jpg From the bomb-damaged roads of Kabul to rural villages, people are wearing masks and are reluctant to shake hands in an attempt to avoid the illness. Abdul Shukur, a Kabul taxi driver, said he rushed in panic to hospital last week to have a blood test for the A(H1N1) swine flu virus after feeling ill. The results were negative “thank God, but I stayed at home for the whole week,” he said. “Being a taxi driver, you’re exposed to the risk more than anyone else. Yeah, I’m scared.” Hajira, a Kabul housewife, said she has stopped her six young children from playing outside their two-bedroom apartment after hearing about the disease on television. “I’m so worried for my kids. I don’t allow them to go out of the apartment. I’ve jailed them inside,” she said, laughing. “They’re my pr
